Articles by Joseph Belanger

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  The Help

  Tate Taylor

  PUBLISHED Dec 9, 2011

  In the '60s, America was in the throes of the civil rights movement. It was most certainly not a good time for a black maid to sit down wit...

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  The Lion King [Blu-Ray]

  Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff

  PUBLISHED Oct 14, 2011

  (Directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff) I must have seen Disney's The Lion King a great number of times as a kid because when I finally...

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  The Ides Of March

  George Clooney

  PUBLISHED Oct 6, 2011

  George Clooney has wanted to make The Ides of March ever since the Beau Willimon play it's based on, Farrugut North, debuted in 2008. Three...

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  The Ides Of March

  George Clooney

  PUBLISHED Sep 23, 2011

  George Clooney has wanted to make The Ides of March ever since the Beau Willimon play it's based on, Farrugut North, debuted in 2008. Three...

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  Contagion

  Steven Soderbergh

  PUBLISHED Sep 9, 2011

  I'm not sure I can in good conscious recommend Contagion to anyone at all. It's not that it's a bad film; it's just that seeing it has pote...

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  30 Minutes Or Less

  Ruben Fleischer

  PUBLISHED Aug 11, 2011

  I've decided that, in the spirit of the title of this film, I'm going to dedicate no more than 30 minutes to writing this review. In actual...

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  Friends With Benefits

  Will Gluck

  PUBLISHED Jul 22, 2011

  Dating is complicated. The scene today can be so cold and callous that most people in it are forced to disengage emotionally in order to su...

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  Bad Teacher

  Jake Kasdan

  PUBLISHED Jun 23, 2011

  The movies offer a long line of great educators from which to draw inspiration. There's Edward James Olmos in Stand and Deliver; Morgan Fre...